Turbulent vs Messy - What's the difference?
turbulent | messy |
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
As an adjective turbulent
is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.As a noun messy is
.turbulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}
Derived terms
* turbulently * turbulent flowExternal links
* * * ----messy
English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}